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Seagate® Technology Holdings plc and Phison Electronics Corp., a global leader in NAND flash controller and storage solutions, have announced intentions to expand their SSD portfolio of next-gen high-performance, high-density enterprise NVMe SSDs. The new SSDs will reduce the total cost of ownership (TCO) for businesses by increasing storage density, lowering power consumption, and improving performance. The firms have announced a long-term collaboration that will improve the development cycle and marketing of enterprise-class SSDs.
Seagate and Phison have collaborated on Seagate’s mainstream SATA SSD products since 2017. That close cooperation has continued through the company’s performance-leading line of FireCuda consumer gaming NVMe PCIe Gen4x4 SSDs and the world’s first purpose-built NAS NVMe SSDs.
The cooperation will now focus on satisfying the expanding global industry need for higher density, quicker, and smarter storage infrastructure that complements HDD storage to support comprehensive enterprise applications like hyperscale data centres, high-performance computing, and AI.
“We integrated Seagate’s 40-plus years of market-leading enterprise storage expertise with Phison’s nimble ability to create highly customised SSDs to meet the ever-evolving needs of the enterprise storage market,” said Jeff Fochtman, senior vice president of business and marketing at Seagate Technology. “Seagate is extremely excited to work with Phison on developing advanced SSD technology. Our selective focus allows us to serve the broad performance-driven enterprise SSD market while continuing our leadership in the specialised premium gaming SSD segment.”
“Phison is proud to partner with Seagate to expand our enterprise SSD product line,” said Sebastien Jean, CTO of Phison Electronics. “Our leading in-house ASIC technology, coupled with engineering excellence, complements Seagate's deep industry knowledge. In a show of commitment to this partnership, in 2020 we opened a development center in Broomfield, Colorado. Together, we will deliver winning solutions for a wide range of applications including Artificial Intelligence, Cloud Storage, and 5G edge computing.”
Seagate and Phison will collaborate to improve the industry's enterprise-class SSD product portfolio, with an emphasis on best-in-class performance, cost-cutting, and efficiency. Each new product will be built and customised to answer a customer's technical demands and optimised for specific workloads, settings, and use cases.